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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories from the week:
What’s with the abandoned white yacht at the old Kaiser shipyard?
There’s an abandoned yacht up on cinder blocks at the Columbia Business Center, between the Columbia River and Southeast Hidden Way. Frankly, it’s a bit of a bummer.
It could be a beautiful boat, but the windows are boarded up, and the black paint on the hull is fading. It’s unfinished, though it looks about 80 percent complete from the outside. And it’s been there for a long, long time.
A sales suppression software case filed against a Camas woman and owner of J&C Cuisine, which operates a Vancouver restaurant, was dismissed earlier this month in Clark County Superior Court.
The Washington Attorney General’s Office had filed the state’s third-ever sales suppression software case in March against Mei Yun Li, 51, alleging she used the illegal software to bilk the state of $134,603 in collected sales tax. She was facing charges of first-degree theft and unlawful use of sales suppression software.
Jade Insko feels lucky to be alive.
What started out as an ordinary morning drive on state Highway 14 near Cape Horn took a dramatic turn when a nearly 40-pound rock smashed through his windshield, crushed his dashboard and steering wheel before bouncing into the passenger seat.
“Had I been a foot further down the road, this would have been a story about a tragedy,” he said.
Visitors to Vancouver’s waterfront on Saturday likely noticed the constant stream of cement mixer trucks coming in on Columbia Way. They were all bound for The Waterfront Vancouver’s block 4, the future site of the Hotel Indigo and Kirkland Tower.
The 11-story building broke ground earlier this year, and has now reached a key turning point. After months of digging downward, construction crews will finally be able to start building upward, starting with Saturday’s placement of a massive concrete slab at the base of what is currently a 38-foot-deep pit at the building site.
On the same day an 18-year-old man appeared in court for his alleged involvement in a robbery and kidnapping connected to the abduction of a 4-year-old girl, Vancouver police arrested two other teenagers believed to be involved.
Francisco Javier Hernandez-Reyes, 18, and a 15-year-old boy were arrested Monday on suspicion of two counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count of first-degree robbery. Reyes was booked into the Clark County Jail, while the boy, whose name was not released, is being held at the Clark County Juvenile Justice Center.
